I'm setting document.title
with JavaScript, and I can't find a way to supply » (»
) without it appearing as literal text.
Here's my code:
document.title = 'Home » site.com';
If I use » ; in the title tag of the document it works great and displays correctly as », but it seems to be unescaping when I include it in document.title
.
Any ideas?
thanks!
Try
document.title = 'Home \u00bb site.com';
Generally you can look up your special character at a site like this and then, once you know the numeric code, you can construct a Unicode escape sequence in your JavaScript string. Here, that character is code 187, which is "bb" in hex. JavaScript Unicode escapes look like "\u" followed by 4 hex digits.
Javascript does not use HTML entities.
You should simply use the actual »
character in your string, and make sure that the file is saved and sent as UTF8.
document.title
takes the string as it is, so you can do this:
document.title = 'Home » site.com';
If you need to provide it as the entity name, you can set the innerHTML attribute. Here are two examples of how you can do it.
document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].innerHTML = '»';
// or
document.querySelector('title').innerHTML = "»";